2"<i S. X. Dec. 15. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



471 



moderns spoil their mince pies by putting in no 

 meat. 



I think Sir Roger gives too much spice, and the 

 addition of preserved citron (unknown in his days) 

 would be a great improvement. L. B. L. 



A Christmas Dittt or the Fifteenth Cen- 



TUEY. — 



" Brynge us home good ale, Syr, brynge us home good 

 ale, 

 And for our der lady, lady loue, brynge us som good 



ale. 

 . Brj'nge us home no beff, Syr, for that is full of bonys, 

 But brynge home goode ale y nough, for that my love 



alone j-s : 

 Brynge us home no wetyn brede, for y* be ful of branne, 

 Nothyr of no ry brede, for y' is of y' same : 

 Br^'nge us home no porke, Sjt, for y' is verie fait, 

 Nothyr no barly bred, for nej'ther love I that ; 

 Brynge us home no muton, for that is toughe and lene, 

 Ney ther no trypys, for thei be seldyn clene : 

 Brynge us home no veell, Syr, that do I not desyr, 

 But brynge us home good ale y nough to drynke by y'^ 



fyer ; 



Brynge us home no syder, nor no palde wyne, 



For and y" do thow shalt have Cristes curse and mine." 



Can any of your lexicographical contributors 



inform me of the meaning of the term " palde 



wine " which this ballad-monger seems here so 



greatly to anathematise ? The first two lines are 



the refrain, which is repeated in the original MS. 



after every couplet. This little song, trifling 



though it may be in itself, may serve to throw a 



little light upon the gastronomy of our ancestors. 



Could its writer but wake up in the nineteenth 



century, he would have no cause to complain of 



the beef being full of" bonys" or of the mutton 



being " toughe and lene." Polecarp Chener. 



Black Currant Rob. — Captain Burton speaks 

 of Rubb Rumman, a thick pomegranate syrup 

 drunk with water in hot weather at Medina. 

 Strange coincidence in name and use with the 

 Rob of our grandmothers. F. C. B. 



Seven Children within the ^ear. — The 

 following is an extract from the Dublin Gazette, 

 12th May, 1730: — 



" They write from Coventry, that last week the wife of 

 the Rev. Mr. Rider, Vicar of Nuneaton, near that city, 

 was safely delivered of four children, who were all living. 

 Ten months ago she had three children at a birth, who 

 are also living." 



The foregoing, if true, was certainly wonderful, 

 and not easily paralleled. Abhba. 



Stare per Antiquas Vias. — A friend of mine 

 staying in Somersetshire, near Blue Anchor, being 

 about to purchase a horse from a neighboux-ing 

 farmer, was informed that, in addition to his 

 other good qualities, he could starry uncommon 

 well. Not comprehending this, he mentioned it to 

 his friend the clergyman of the parisli, with whom 

 he was staying, and the parson, laughing at him, 

 said it was very true, and pointed out the innu- 



merable stairs or projecting slabs of fiat rock, 

 or schistus, projecting across their parish roads, 

 up and down which the horse had to travel 

 weekly in its way to Dulverton Market; that every 

 horse so employed was expected to pass safely 

 over, and, as the worthy divine quoted, Stare per 

 antiquas vias, W. Collyns. 



Chudleigh. 



eauerte)S» 



Christmas Poem. — Will anyone able to do so 

 insert in " N. & Q." a Christmas Sonnet or Poem 

 composed by a William Leighton who lived circa 

 1624 ; and also tell us some particulars, if known, 

 of the life, relationship, and locality of this same 

 William Leighton* ? W. A. Leighton. 



Shrewsbury. 



Heraldic Queries. — 1. On a silver apostle 

 spoon, English, date about 1530-50, is engraved 

 the following coat of arms, viz. : — 



A hart lodged in front of a pavilion. Crest : 

 a demi-stag mounting. 



The letters K. and M. are engraved, one on 

 each side of the mantling. I should add that no 

 tinctures are shown by the engraving. Will some 

 one of your heraldic correspondents give me the 

 name and particulars of the family who bore the 

 above arms ? 



2. On a silver mounted holster pistol of appa- 

 rently early 18th century work, maker's name 

 Corbau, a Mastrich, the following coat of arms is 

 inlaid in the stock, viz.. 



On 2 bars undule, 3 galleys, 2. and 1. (no tinc- 

 tures shown), the whole surmounted by a mar- 

 quis's coronet. Perhaps Mr. Van Lennep would 

 kindly afford me information as to the family and 

 title to which these arms belonged. W. T. S. 



Cape Town, C. G. Hope. 



Lesley Grove. — Where may I find any parti- 

 culars of this character ? In the Gentleman's Ma- 

 gazine, 1794, Part II. p. 1156., there is the following 

 announcement of his death : — 



" In Dublin, in consequence of a blow on the head 

 from a gentleman whom he had aflfronted, the well- 

 known Lesley Grove." 



Abhba. 



Goose Offering to the King of Hungary. — 

 On St. Martin's Day it is the custom of the Jewish 

 congregation of Pressburg to present by deputa- 



[* In The Teares or Lamentations of a Sorrowfull 

 Soule, set foorth by Sir William Leighton, Knight, one 

 of his Maiesties Honorable Band of Pentioners, 4to. 1613, 

 p. 21., is "AHeauenly Hymne touching the Natiuitie 

 of our Lord and Sauiour lesus Christ." Can this be the 

 Poem inquired after ? There is a notice of this work, but 

 without any biographical particulars, "in Brydges's British 

 Bibliographer, i. 378. See also Hawkins's Hist, of Music, 

 iii. 624. ; iv. 26. — Ed.] 



